This is not déjà vu(or a joke) — we are finally executing on the training event we postponed last November If you want to know why now, today Unity released their public beta of Unity 4.2, with support for Windows Store apps. The event is on; below, you will find the highest level details. For…

On December 13 and 14th, Microsoft and the Big Nerd Ranch team are having a two day training on building Windows Store apps. The event will be in Microsoft’s Mountain View (CA) campus. To attend in person, register at https://aka.ms/iostoWindowscamp Both days will also be streamed live at https://channel9.msdn.com You can find a detailed…

This event has been post-poned to a soon to be announced date (it will be end of January). Apologies for the inconvenience. Stay tuned for the new confirmed date details in the coming weeks. Our Windows Evangelism team is partnering with Unity to put a great two-day workshop on building Windows Store games with Unity. The…

This coming Thursday (6/14) members of the Windows User Experience team are delivering an all-day, free, virtual training on Windows 8 UX fundamentals. You can register for the event here. Below is a brief excerpt from the registration site ( sorry for blatant copy paste ).. Metro style apps are the focal point of…

I have blogged before about the process to get a Windows 8 developer token early so you can reserve your name and submit your app. Now, a few colleagues in US DPE Central region are raising the bounty with a contest that gives free slates to the best apps that complete a lab by June…

A few colleague evangelists are doing a series on MSDN Webcasts on building Windows 8 Metro style apps.. Catch the whole series and get a very concise, yet comprehensive introduction to building Metro style apps.. See below for abstracts and presenter for each session, click on the title for each session to visit the registration…

Two weeks ago, we announced an all day training for those Building metro style apps with C++.. Event sold out within a few days, and we got a lot of requests for it to be recorded (or broadcasted live).. I am happy to announce that the event will now be live. Please pencil us in in…

Join the Microsoft Visual C++ and Windows teams in Redmond on May 18, 2012 for a free, all-day event focused on building Windows 8 Metro style apps with C++. Whether you are a new C++ developer ready to learn about the writing Metro style apps, an intermediate developer who wants to hone your code…

Tuesday, the Windows Store blog announced that in the next significant Windows 8 preview release they will be expanding their global coverage with 33 additional app submission locales for developers. As Antoine Leblond alluded to in the post, our store services are ramping up as planned–and of course the plan includes ramping up developer registrations…

[I am traveling today, so it might be a one-off due to low band-width at the hotel, but in case it helps others] I was installing Live writer and got a prompt to install the .NET Framework 3.5, I agreed to do that and got a “following feature could not be installed. Error: 0x800F0906….